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Pastimes : Boxing: The Sweet Science -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (3144)	4/19/2001 11:30:47 AM
From: Quahog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10489

It really is terrible. Sounds like a movie of the week. Protective headgear? Not for the pros, I don't think. As long as knock-outs are part of the game, headgear just doesn't make sense to me.

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (3144)	4/19/2001 11:53:53 AM
From: LPS5	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10489

In the semi's we wore headgear, mouthpieces, shirts, and 12+ ounce gloves. It sucked. In the pros, they go without headgear, mouthpieces, go shirtless, and use 6-8 ounce gloves, as I recall. Some use 4 ounce gloves, I think. Headgear isn't the issue, at least not up front: it's the weight of the gloves. The safest boxing is old style, rope ring w/sawdust, barefisted fighting...though it's too brutal and notoriously bloody. Lots of scarring, etc. Gruesome...but it's safer because you only punch hard enough to break your hand. Let a guy wrap a pillow around his hand...or fight with a 12 ounce, or 16 ounce glove...and he'll throw meatballs from the ground up. I say - before examining making headgear the mandatory protective wear for pros - first mandate that all gloves for pros be 2-4 ouncers. It'll be like a piece of leather the thickness of corrugated cardboard over the fists. With that being the case, you can be reasonably sure that guys will punch and not swing like windmills, at least not without hurting themselves as well. LPS5